When Owen finally saw off the Goodlovs, the entire Harris house fell silent in the middle of the night, and Alan, who had been asleep in bed for a while, rubbed his eyes and got up from his bed, he had drunk too much at dinner and before going to bed tonight.

Later, in the corridor where he returned to the bedroom after losing some weight, Alan saw his daughter Helena floating in the dark room, Alan's hand tightened, the ghost is not a living creature after all, it does not need and cannot really sleep, in such a dead of night, she wanders in the room like this, it should be very lonely.

Ai Xin straightened her pajama pants to make herself look less sloppy and lazy, and then whispered to her daughter, "Helena." ”

"Father?" Helena turned and floated over.

The portrait that Alan had retrieved at the entrance to the Hogwarts kitchen appeared in his hand, and Alan looked at Helena and said softly, "This is a portrait of Helga Hufflepuff, do you want to hang it in your room? ”

Alan was about to unfold the scroll when he heard Helena say, "Father, it's too late, don't disturb her." Helena took two steps forward, her hand brushing over the scroll: "Let's hang it in the kitchen, she likes to watch people cook, and she will make friends with her grandmother, don't worry about father, I'm just getting familiar with the house." ”

"Then I'll take you back to the room first, you can slowly get familiar with it during the day, you don't have to deliberately hide your state, you want to wear it through the wall, we don't have so many rules in our house, of course, you'd better confirm the state inside before entering the bathroom..."

Helena was led by Eren to her room, which was located next to Alan's bedroom. On top of the brownish-red wooden door. There is a door number nailed to the door number, on which Helena's name is written in flower-style English, and there are some decorative pictures of flowers, birds, and birds. Helena stretched out her long, transparent fingers to touch the name on the door number that belonged to hers like a living person, and her fingers followed the strokes of the letters, and rewrote the whole name again. You know, even though she is the ghost of Ravenclaw College, she doesn't have a room of her own, she can only live in her mother's sculpture.

Alan didn't turn away immediately, he went into his daughter's new room, dragged a chair and placed it beside the bed, he patted it on the bed: "Helena, lie down and try? I'll tell you about the Poet Bean's Tales." ”

"Father, I was older than you when I was alive... It's long past the age of listening to bedtime stories. Helena said this, but she still allowed herself to lie flat and float on the bed.

"We won't talk about age in the future... That's how your grandfather treated me when I was a child, so let's fulfill my father's wishes" Alan ignored his daughter's complaints and told the story directly: "A beloved wizard who used his magic to help his neighbors and made a cure in this magic pot. It was a round pot......

There was a quiet tenderness to Alan's voice in the middle of the night, and Helena lay on her bed, holding her head in her hands, unblinking as she watched her father tell her fairy tales that only wizard children would hear. Helena had seen her younger students read these stories many times, but in the moment, they gave her a different meaning.

After saying goodbye to her father, Helena floated to her bed, as if she was alive, and let herself float flat on the bed, she could not understand what it was like, but from the thickness and color, Helena guessed that it must be very soft and comfortable.

The ghost had no tears, she stared at the curtains that fluttered gently with the cool summer night breeze blowing from the window—she had not seen her father since she was born, and her mother had not treated her as affectionately as she did now, and many times she had heard others say that she was an undesirable child, and how wise and great her mother was, and for this reason, when she was still alive, she had longed to be wiser than her mother, Rowena Ravenclaw. More famous, he stole the crown of Ravenclaw's symbolic wisdom and hid it in a hollow tree in the Albanian forest - but only learned from his mother a few years ago that it was all planned by his mother in order to keep his soul from getting lost in the underworld...

But even though she knew that her mother and father's plans were to protect herself, she had always felt lonely when she grew up, except that Helga Hufflepuff took good care of her—the other wizards who courted her were either forced by her mother's prestige to please her mother, or they were spying on her eyebrows and identity.

And today's grand welcome scene, seeing the undisguised anticipation and joy on their faces, made her heart at this time swell with a feeling that she had not felt for many years, she tilted her head, trying to recall from memory, but she could not find the words to describe this feeling, she had no way to determine how she felt at the moment. Either way, from this day on, she has a home, and this is her home.

At nine o'clock the next day, the sky was still dark, and compared with the black clouds outside and the dark sky, the living room of Harris's house was brightly lit, and Allen, who was refreshed after washing, slowly went downstairs.

Just now, Alan received a letter from the owl sent by the Ministry of Magic, and his and Luna's position as a silent man had been approved, requiring him to perform his duties at the Ministry of Magic in the next few days, so early in the morning, Alan contacted Luna and dressed up and prepared to leave, but the laughter from the kitchen caught his eye.

In the kitchen, Helena was introducing the family to Helga in the Hufflepuff portrait that Alan had hung on the wall last night, and Helga and Morgan Lefay, who had finally come out of the tavern, were obviously very speculative, and Morgan Lefay was very interested in making food, especially desserts.

Helga was clearly very satisfied with her family's attitude towards Helena and the place she had placed in the kitchen, and when her eyes met Alan's, she nodded kindly to Alan. Alan smiled and nodded when he saw this, turned around and ghosted away.

When Eren approached the main hall of the Ministry of Magic, and got rid of the members and visitors who had greeted him, he found that Luna and Lun, who were dressed strangely, had already arrived at a row of golden doors at the end of the foyer, and were talking at the elevator of more than twenty departments, which was their agreed meeting place.

After converging, they walked into the crowd in front of an elevator, and a middle-aged female teacher with reddish blond curls smiled at Lun En, but she didn't dare to take the initiative to say hello, but her eyes couldn't help but look at Luna from time to time.

Because she was not required to wear a uniform at school, Luna wore a bold and fancy forehead headband, wearing a loose cotton blue dress covered with irregular patterns, wearing layers of homemade large necklaces and chains with rings and bracelets hanging diagonally, and sandals made of several hemp ropes of different colors twisted together and made of full cowhide soles, making her look not at all from the Ministry of Magic but like a wild outing, and the colorful contrast between her and the wizards around her in formal attire.

"How are you doing, Mrs. Ekmore, how is your daughter's face?" Lunn greeted her.

"Director Harris bothered you, my daughter's face is fine. The witch looked a little flattered: "Although I supervise the Floo Network, please rest assured, I will urge my colleagues to speed up the procedures for the transformation of the magic car as soon as possible." ”

With a clanging click, an elevator descended in front of them, the golden fence door gently sliced open, and no one of the wizards entered first, until Lunn walked into the elevator with Alan and Luna, and they then entered. Not only Mrs. Ekmo, but the wizards in the elevator all tacitly approached the elevator wall, leaving the central space to Lunn and them - there are seven major divisions in the Ministry of Magic, each of which is in charge of an aspect of the wizarding world, among which the Department of Magical Law Enforcement under Lunn's jurisdiction is the largest of all the major divisions, except for the Department of Mysteries, the other major divisions are more or less related to it, so Lunn is actually their top boss.

Lunn took Alan and Luna to his office, and in his drawer, he took out two small notebooks with brown leather covers. The notebook can be folded into three layers, with information about the bearer on the left, photos of Alan and Luna, a Ministry of Magic logo in the middle, and a department and responsibilities on the right.

Allen's eyes were fixed on the seal in the middle that represented the Ministry of Magic, which was a light golden seal, as if shining like the sun, it consisted of two circles, the middle of the large circle on the inside of the seal was the initial M of Magic capitalization, and there was a magic wand in the middle of the V part of the M, the top of the wand, the two sharp corners above the M were like angel wings emitting stars, and the small circle outside was surrounded by the words "Ministry of Magic (Mnistry of Magic)".

"The Department of Mysteries is the most special existence in the Ministry of Magic, it is an independent department, located on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic, it is the department of the Ministry of Magic that conducts secret research on specific puzzles, most of the business is completely secret from the ordinary wizarding public, few wizards in the Ministry of Magic really know what this place is like, and the people who work in the Department of Mysteries are called Silent People because their work has the highest level of secrecy and concealment. They rarely talk about work, even former staff, and we've removed all of the surveillance equipment in the Department of Mysteries after Voldemort. I think that even though the father theoretically had the right to know, he didn't necessarily understand what they were doing other than knowing that there was a record of storing and keeping the prophecies. Lunn also brought his own papers, "I'll take you there, Alan, Luna, I'm honored to be a colleague with you." ”

Alan put his papers away, "The main business of this department seems to be more like what Muggle scientists do, which is to reveal the sources and rules that govern the operation of magic. ”

"But they can't learn it, because they haven't seen the Nether scrolls. Luna tucked the papers into her raven's pocket.

Hearing the two children say what seemed to be a big secret like a casual conversation, Lunn coughed a few times, wanted to remind his brother and Ravenclaw that they should pay attention to the privacy of their conversation, and then took the initiative to divert the topic: "Arthur? When Weasley was attacked, it was actually an illegal operation of the Order of the Phoenix, and they took turns to sneak into the Department of Mysteries to protect the prophecy orb, but at that time, because of the plan, we did not hinder them, and it was inconvenient to investigate the Order of the Phoenix afterwards, and in the end, it was only for mismanagement that the Department of Mysteries was punished on some faces, and the remaining silent man Saul Crocker was not an official, he was a little sensitive to this, although it was not to say that he had emotions, but then he behaved too carefully..."

Alan was a little helpless, and his second brother showed a serious expression after coughing dryly, pretending not to hear: "Lunn, of course I know that you can hear my conversation with Luna here, and I will tell you when I fully understand it, for the sake of my apprentice Merlin, don't be so boring, you are my brother and I am my younger brother, what are you avoiding... Even Daisy and Emily haven't always liked you very much because of this, let alone the other girls..."